Father Z Pinpoints The Vortex in Kansas City

Father Z at the Radio Sabina Broadcast Center

Father Z writes:

"In Kansas City – all within a few blocks of each other – you will find:

• The Chancery of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph
• The HQ of the National Catholic Fishwrap... errr… Reporter
• The chapel of the SSPX, St. Vincent’s"

Father Z With Friend Richard C. Hoagland in Front of the National Catholic Reporter Building

"You know about the Bermuda Triangle, right?  Stuff went in and never came out again!

My friends and I are convinced that were to to find the exact epicenter of the ecclesial forces at work between these three coordinates, you would encounter…

THE VORTEX.

Go to the exact center and you never come out..."

"...Then it was time to draw the intersecting lines from each angle to the midpoints of the force vectors to get a high-precision exact pin-pointed location.  We had to measure to find the exact mid-points."

"I have added some red lines to help you see what we found…. yes… a Scottish Rite MASONIC TEMPLE just slightly to the SW of the SSPX Chapel! See?  See?!?... The anti-ecclesial force vectors emanating from the Masonic lodge so close to the SSPX chapel are just strong enough to weaken its influence!  Therefore the anti-pull and retrograde-polarity exerted by the NCR – yes, the NCR and not the SSPX – was able to dislocate the epicenter of the forces slightly in its favor, thus shifting the location of…

THE VORTEX."

• In search of … THE VORTEX

Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream.....

I had a dream early this morning that was interrupted twice and I went back to it both times. In my dream I was in the gym at St. Joan of Arc (where they have their "mass") and Archbishop Nienstedt was speaking about appropriate liturgy (yeah, appropriate) and then he called me up for something and I responded to him in Latin (yeah, REALLY weird)-everyone else was sitting. What was really odd was there were 3 priests off to the left of Archbishop Nienstedt. They were sitting together, in the plastic chairs they have at SJA, like the priests/deacons do at St. Agnes. The priest closest to the Archbishop in that cluster of 3 was Bishop Piche-which is odd because he'd usually be sitting alone as Bishop. The priest on the other side I could not make out. But, the priest in the middle was Father Z and he was smiling. All three priests had birettas on. Father Z had green vestment on for Ordinary Time.

The priest who sits in the middle is the celebrant which is usually the primary priest of a parish.

I was joking with Father Z when I met him that I'd pay real money to see him as priest of St. Joan of Arc. He laughed pretty heartily.

Weird

or is it??? Bwah-ha-ha!

Note: Vincenzo got his creative program on and imaged my dream. He put the dream in the Church itself; NOT the gym. The gym is where the main "masses" are held on Sunday. The Church is reserved for two brief family "masses" about 1/2 hour in to the main gym "mass" (yeah, I know). Anyway, I was going to ask V to change this image but then I realized that no way would Father Z allow a Mass to be in a gym when there is an actual Church! Also, I rememebered how much "levitating Jesus" still creeps me out. Ray would not list this, uh, crucifix among his favorites. The pagan broomstick cross in the gym is pretty bad too. I'm trying to think which is worse. Why am I rambling???

Today He Settled All Church Business

Father Zuhlsdorf had an interesting live phone discussion with Father Keyes in "Z-Chat" last night.

Then Snup mentioned Bishop Cordileone, and one thing led to another...

"Fr. Kung, you're a brother priest, and I love you. But don't ever take sides with anyone against the family again. Ever."

"Now listen: I want somebody good -- and I mean very good -- to plant that '62 missal. I don't want Father coming out of that sacristy with just his biretta in his hands, alright?"

"But I'm a superstitious man. And if some unlucky accident should occur during Mass - If we hear On Eagle's Wings, Sing a New Church, or any songs from Glory and Praise, then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room, and that I do not forgive. But, that aside, let me say that I swear, on the The Spirit of Vatican II, that I will not be the one to break the peace we've made here today."

What Does the Prayer Really Say?

Not so cool in Manhattan

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